Wednesday, January 24, 2007

What is CCSID - Coded Character Set IDentifier?

A CCSID is a number to identify a particular code page. For example, North Americans use the US-English code page denoted by a CCSID 037. Germans use the CCSID 273 that includes code points for specific characters in their language such as letters with umlauts. Other examples are 1252 which is an ASCII CCSID used on Windows platform and 1208 which represents the unicode transformation format UTF-8.

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